Sloppy comic book adventure from Robin Cook's bestseller. Female Egyptologist in Cairo, a nervous ninny prone to screaming, is under investigation by a member of the United Nations after witnessing the murder and robbery of an art dealer; he follows her to Luxor, where she believes a tomb at the Valley of the Kings holds a legendary treasure. Despite a great deal of production expense and travel (not to mention Michael J. Lewis' booming, over-dramatic score), the spiritless film fails to function as a sand-swept travelogue, and it's too silly and annoying to work as a thriller. In the leads, Lesley-Anne Down and Frank Langella are an enervating pair. Sir John Gielgud has a little fun in a cameo role, and he exits far too soon. *1/2 from ****

This movie was great.Langella was believable as an Egyptian and Lesley-Anne Down had an uncanny ability to either retain her hairdo under ANY circumstances or change it by slipping on a carpet runner.Sir John Gielgud does not play an Egyptian in the film as suggested earlier.He is a Brit living there for a long time running an antique/souvenir shop.The movie was much better than the book,where Erica Barron only briefly met Achmet Khazam.This film is one of my all time faves and was actually made to cash in on the King Tut exhibit touring the world.The film has an expensive look to it and cost about 17 million dollars to make.It has newbie Egyptologist Erica Barron(Lesley-Anne Down)from Boston traveling to Egypt and getting into deep trouble like most Americans.Cinematography is excellent and while the plot might be thin in places,the film works.Just two years earlier leading man here Frank Langella portrayed Dracula in the 1979 film of the same name with a dicscoesque quality to him.Chiefly you will learn that mummy's arms and hands make excellent torches.I'll give it nine out of ten points for continuity problems.

This is probably the slowest movie I have ever seen, and that's saying a lot since I watch BBC TV on satellite. The story is confusing, the acting is poor, and the casting is unbelievable. Lesley-Anne Down is the movie's only redeeming quality, and she spoils it by having to speak that innane dialogue! I've watched worse, but I've never sat through a slower movie!

The first half is ok, nothing more. The second half is so bad it's almost comical. Even Langella at his sexiest can't save this turkey.